Tag Archives: Country-Folk

Bloom is an extremely unusual folkie whose considerable abilities include building and using exotic instruments. A highly effective sideman, Bloom continues to be under-recorded being a soloist. His shows, both personally and on record, often reveal both wit and laughter.

Best known as you fifty percent of the acclaimed new traditionalist nation duo the O’Kanes, vocalist/songwriter Kieran Kane was created in Queens, NY, about Oct 7, 1949; by age group nine, he was drumming in his old brother’s rock-band, during his teenagers he switched his concentrate to bluegrass and folk, …

Multi-instrumentalist Costs Chambers was raised in a little town in Southern Australia fascinated with American music. As an adolescent he performed any stringed device he could easily get his practical. While still in senior high school, Chambers produced his initial music group, the Deerstalkers, keeping them jointly until his commitments …

Bobby Bare’s tale ‘s almost as exciting as his music. Bare’s mom passed away when he was five. His dad couldn’t earn plenty of money to give food to his kids, forcing the family members to split. Bare was focusing on a plantation by enough time he was 15 yrs …

The Contenders are believed among the great “might have been” rings from your progressive country picture, featuring many of the outstanding players connected with Uncle Walt’s Music group in conjunction with a set of NEW YORK pickers and songwriters. It wasn’t the grade of music that held this group from …

A local of Ontario, Canada, Bob Ruler was raised within the Ottawa Valley, a little-known “down north” middle of nation music and hillbilly tradition. Ruler arrived close (without quite being successful) to breaking in to the American marketplace and achieving long lasting popularity beyond the confines of rural Ontario. He …

The 1990 compilation from the Flatlanders’ entire recorded history wasn’t called Even more a Legend When compared to a Music group for nothing. Even though Lubbock, Texas-based group got the most severe business good fortune this aspect of Badfinger, rather than do manage a full-fledged discharge of their particular undertake …

Folksinger Bob Frank was created and was raised in Memphis, TN, where he began using in coffeehouses in the first ’60s. He briefly went to Vanderbilt School before getting expelled for playing his electric guitar within the dorm. He gained a qualification in British from Rhodes University in Memphis in …

Bob Atcher was probably one of the most popular nation music entertainers from the post-World Battle II period, enjoying a 21-yr career in OKeh and Columbia Information, in addition to main radio stardom on WLS’ Country wide Barn Dance from Chicago. His selection of materials went from traditional nation and …

Vocalist/songwriter Audrey Auld was created in Australia and raised within the bush in Tasmania, without tv or radio. She analyzed dancing and used the traditional violin inside a musical family members; her father performed jazz piano, and her stepfather experienced a jazz band. Like a pre-adolescent, she relocated to city …